Sarasota Tech Connect

helping build high-tech in greater sarasota

Manasota SCORE -  Live your dream. Manasota SCORE can help. You don't have to go it alone...The Manasota Chapter of SCORE covers Manatee and Sarasota counties in Florida and has over 60 volunteers locally to assist you with Education and Mentoring on a wide range of business issues. 

TBIG - Bright Ideas on the Gulf Coast. That's who we are, what we want, and how we'll grow. BIG is an entrepreneurial concierge service that connects bright ideas with the right resources to stimulate new business growth in the Gulf Coast region. For idea generators who seek help growing their innovative idea or venture, BIG offers customized referrals to coaching, business planning, funding, and other support. No idea is too small for BIG. We harvest viable ideas from across the region and match them with the specialized assistance they need - in other words, we bring the right services or resources to you. Learn more about BIG and how you can participate. BIG is an initiative of Gulf Coast Community Foundation.

BarCamp Sarasota-Bradenton emphasizes the intersection of technology, education, and economic development. Building a community through user-generated conferences, meetups, workshops, lunch and learns and after-hour events; the open forum format is born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. Facilitating great conversations since 2009, BarCamp Sarasota-Bradenton now has the opportunity to host gatherings at Station 2 Innovation at 912 7th Ave E, Bradenton. Starting in March of 2015, most 9but not every) Tuesdays there will be some sort of cool conversation happening. BarCamp is a conversation - please join in!

This group is designed to bring together 'local professional women who own, manage or are thinking of starting their own businesses' in the Sarasota/Bradenton Area.The purpose of our meetings will be to assist each member in building and marketing a successful women owned business. Our meetings will allow us to develop a group of women who care about and support one other and provide us with a forum where we can talk about our business goals, challenges, opportunities and successes and receive support, encouragement, direction, referrals, ideas, and leads.

Young Entrepreneurs of Sarasota (YES) share success strategies every Tuesday.  All ages welcome (100 yrs or younger), no membership applications, no dues. YES is a positive oriented volunteer educational support group for Entrepreneurs. Relationship building starts 11:30; lunch 11:45; YES workshop starts at 12:00 and ends at 1:00.